In April 2006 AniOnline was created and then slowly died off. Join us as we mourn the loss of AniOnline on it's 10th anniversary.

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Wait wait wait! Don't just look it up on a GPS. Where's the fun in that? Lemme see if I can figure it out on my own first.

[NPC] AmyUm... okay, go ahead.

Haha Yes! It's so much more fun to figure things out without the help of modern technologies. Exercises the brain, you know?

Right then, I'm thinking of three words... No, Four words... No, three words again...

MoonStarsNight Sky

[NPC] AmyThat's four words.

I said four words.

[NPC] AmyThen you corrected yourself and said three.

I thought "Night Sky" was all one word!

[NPC] AmyIt's not.

Compound word?

[NPC] AmyNo.

Mmmm yeah 'course it's not.

Speaking of which, do you know how many languages out there shorten "Night Sky" to just one word? It's like almost all of them! Well, not Welsh. In Welsh it's four words. Hop on the bandwagon any time fellas we don't got all day. But my point being I can determine our location on the globe using the position and phase of the moon. That along with the constellations should tell me everything we need to kn-know...

Call me crazy... but there aren't any stars out, are there?

[NPC] AmyWe're in the middle of a city, so no, not a single one.

Ah, perfect. Great. Just great.

Well I can narrow down our location using the foliage and weather alone. It's winter so we must be in the northern hemisphere still. It's night so that's about two to three time zones away from our previous location give or take. Evergreens over there aren't telling us much...

...and I just realised one very very important detail that all of us should have noticed the moment we got here.

I'm just gonna get this over with and carefully cross the lake. I'm the closest to the edge and the ice in front of me looks fine. If I'm slow and careful I should make it. I CANNOT POSSIBLY MESS THIS UP.

Marvin, despite being cursed with bad luck, somehow does not mess this up and crosses the lake, having rolled the maximum number he is able to roll on a 20. The curse is letting up on him, apparently. He remembers the dark days when he was only able to roll a 5 or lower on a 20, but it looks like those days are behind him. No more going to perform at the Prime Minister's birthday party only to light yourself on fire, running out of Parliament screaming. Prime Minister found it funny, but it was anything but.

Hey, it's fine, I crossed safely. You guys can stop worrying about me ballsing everything up for myself and worry about your own hides for a change.

Alright, you can do this. Faced more perilous obstacles before, this should be easy. Just gotta carefully walk across the frozen lake without it breaking underneath you. Easy. Oh how I love it when it's easy, and oh how I hate how it's almost always never easy.

Gotta double check something, Amy! With these old ears I have to make sure they aren't playing tricks on me!

[NPC] AmyWhat was it you were saying about a noise?!

The noise Amy! The noise of people! Hundreds of people, all busy and having places to go in the dead of night, not slowing down, not stopping! The noise of taxi cabs and bus drivers and pizza delivered on mopeds! The noise of people, unable to see outside the scope of their own lives yelling at others to slow down! But do they slow down? Nooooo, they keep going! They've got things to do and places to see! Life is short and the pizza is getting cold, Amy! Who on earth likes a cold pizza?!

[NPC] AmyWhat are you saying?! Isn't that the same in every city?!

Oh not every city, Amy! There's one city, ONE CITY that stands out as the busiest, brightest, and biggest of them all! Where else would we be?!